Reduced Fat Cranberry Cappuccino Muffins

Submitted by bakergurl04

"I am baking for Self-Denial, which is the Salvation Army's annual fundraiser for our missionaries; and my way of helping is to bake something different each Monday. It was sent to me from the Ocean Spray Co. when I sent them comments on anther recipe I had tried recently that I found on their website@ www.oceanspray.ca."

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 12 muffins
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 1 3⁄4 cups flour
• 2⁄3 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 tablespoon instant coffee
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
• 3⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 egg
• 3⁄4 cup milk
• 1⁄4 cup applesauce
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 1⁄2 ocean spray fresh cranberries or 1 1/2 frozen cranberries, coarsely chopped

directions

1. I also added a tsp of cranberry extract, which I had on hand; but you could possibly add cranberry juice or use chocolate extract if you can find it too.
2. Preheat oven to 375*F.
3. Grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
4. Cobine dry ingredients in a medium mixing bowl.
5. Combine remaining ingredients, except cranberries, in a seperate bowl.
6. Add liquid ingredients to dry, mixing just until the dry ingredients are moist.
7. Stir in cranberries.
8. Fill muffin cups 2/3 of the way full with batter.
9. Bake for about 25 minutes or until muffins test done.
10. Cool 5 minutes in pan; and then remove to wire rack to cool completely.

Reviews

[Rickami]

This was not a vey good muffin. The cranberries are very tart and the muffin is not very sweet to compensate for the tartness of the cranberries. I will not make this again.